Open AccessEvaluation of integrated teaching among undergraduate medical students: A step towards competency-based medical education.
Author(s) -
Rajesh Kumar Gupta,
Sameer Sathe,
Mukesh K. Pandey,
Abhishek Mehta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pediatric review: international journal of pediatrics research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-5499
pISSN - 2349-3267
DOI - 10.17511/ijpr.2020.i08.11
Subject(s) - likert scale , medical education , test (biology) , teaching method , session (web analytics) , observational study , medicine , psychology , mathematics education , computer science , paleontology , developmental psychology , world wide web , biology
Background: Didactic lectures are one of the most widely used teaching methods in Indian MedicalColleges. An integrated approach can make medical teaching more interesting and skill-oriented tothe faculty as well as students. Aim & Objective: To evaluate integrated teaching in medicaleducation assessing existing knowledge of medical students' inappropriate breastfeeding practices.Methodology: This was an observational cross-sectional study. Participants were second phasemedical students. The sharing method of integrated teaching was used involving the Department ofAnatomy, Physiology, and Pediatrics. Students were evaluated for their knowledge on the topicbefore and after the integrated teaching session through a predesigned pre-validated MCQs basedquestionnaire. Feedback of students was taken on Likert’s scale. The analysis was done using aStudent paired t-test. Results: A total of 63 students were assessed for the topic with pretest andpost-test. Student Paired t-test showed extremely statistically significant two-tailed P-value (<0.0001). 76% (n= 48) of students were strongly agreed with such integrated teaching sessions.55.5% (n=35) strongly felt its usefulness and 95% (n=60) agreed about the conduction of suchmore sessions in the future too. Conclusion: Statistically significant absolute learning gain wasobserved for integrated teaching. Integrated teaching has been appreciated and accepted byundergraduate medical students to improve their learning.